PART FOURTH, 



DESCRIPTIVE BOTANY; OB, PHYTOLOGY. 



COMPRISING 



THE FLORA OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 



(WITHIN THE LIMITS MENTIONED IN THE PREFACE). 



SUB-KINGDOM, PHJENOGAMIA OR FLOWERING 

 PLANTS. Vegetables having an axial development, leafy 

 appendages and true flowers, their substance composed of cel- 

 lular, spirovascular, and woody tissue ; their flowers with mani- 

 fest stamens and pistils, and producing seeds with an embryo. 

 (For sub-kingdom Cryptogamia or Flowerless Plants, see page 

 810), 



PROVINCE, EXOGEN^E OR DICOTYLEDONOUS 



PLANTS. Phsenogamous plants having a stem composed 

 of a central column of pith enclosed with wood and bark, 

 the latter exterior ; growing by the addition of concentric 

 layers external to the wood, internal to the bark. Leaves 

 mostly net-veined. Flowers very generally 5-merous, rarely 

 3-merous. Embryo with two or more opposite cotyledons. 

 (Province Endogena3 or Monocotyledonous plants, see page 

 666.) 



CLASS I, ANGIOSPERM^E. Exogenous plants with net- 

 veined leaves. Pistils complete, having stigmas for the 

 reception of the pollen, enclosing the ovules within an 

 ovary which becomes at maturity a seed-vessel enclosing 

 the seeds. Cotyledons only two. (Class II. Gymno- 

 spermas, with no stigmas, naked seeds, and leaves not net- 

 veined, see page 659.) 



COHORT 1, DIALYPETAL^ OR POLYPETALOUS 

 EXOGENS. Plants having a double perianth, consist- 

 ing of both calyx and corolla, the latter composed of 

 distinct petals, rarely abortive. (Cohort 2. Gamope- 

 talse or Monopetalous Exogens, page 393. Cohort 3. 

 Monochlaraydeaa or Apetalous Exogens, page 601.) 



